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Sinn Fein MP quits after a row over Kingsmill loaf
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jan 15, 2018 09:37am |
| Category | News |
| News Date | Jan 15, 2018 04:00am |
| Description | A SINN Fein MP who caused controversy after posing with a Kingsmill branded loaf on his head on the anniversary of the Kingsmill massacre has resigned.
Barry McElduff, who was last week suspended by his party for three months, said he had now decided to quit as an abstentionist member of parliament for West Tyrone.
"It is with great sadness that, after more than 30 years as an active Sinn Fein member and public representative I am tendering my resignation as MP for West Tyrone," he said
"The reason I am doing so is because of the consequences of the Twitter video which has caused such controversy over the last week."
Mr McElduff reiterated his insistence that he had not meant the video as a reference to the sectarian murders of 10 protestant workmen by republican paramilitaries near the south Armagh village of Kingsmill in 1976. |
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